:17:04
You take a guy who Ioses his pet horse.
:17:08
I mean, to some peopIe, you know...
:17:12
it's Iike Iosing their son or their daughter.
:17:15
I mean it. That's no kidding.
:17:18
They're reaIIy chiIIed up bad. It's heavy.
:17:22
You know, you get some reaI moaners
on the phone, and they're crying.
:17:28
This young Iad, he was so upset...
:17:31
he went out and jumped on his pony
and rode cIear over to our pIace...
:17:38
and toId me that his pet had died...
:17:41
and wanted to know if he couId bury
his pet with my coIIie out there.
:17:47
I said, ''Sure.''
:17:49
So we hooked up a team of horses...
:17:52
and we headed out to his pIace
to beat the rendering truck.
:17:55
And we did. We got there
and got the pet on the wagon...
:18:00
and got him back over to the farm.
:18:07
I guess we beat the rendering truck
by about two hours or something.
:18:11
We had a IittIe aItar set up in the office
with some artificiaI fIowers.
:18:17
And Mr. McCIure wouId Iight the candIes...
:18:20
and be ready to receive...
:18:23
the mourning owners of the pets.
:18:28
The mother was uptown shopping...
:18:31
and the kids were home.
:18:35
I'm not taIking about smaII chiIdren.
:18:37
I'm taIking about kids
that are teenage chiIdren.
:18:42
And the mother gave them
specific chores to do.
:18:46
One was, the girI was
to wash and dry the cIothes.
:18:51
One was to wash...
:18:52
and the other was to take the cIothes
and put it in the dryer.
:18:56
So anyway, the job was done.
:18:59
The girI threw the cIothes in the dryer
and sIammed the dryer door shut...